Preschool Christmas Party

It was the Hobby Horse Ranch Preschool Christmas Party on Thursday! They had cookies and a book exchange! You know how much the boys love reading their books-especially Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See! Aimee put all the books in a big Santa bag and went around the room and let each child pick a book out of the bag. Dillon picked The Snow Bear and Christmas Cats (Daddy's favorite Chirstmas book for sure-not!). And Brenen picked The Littlest Christmas Tree and The Penguin Who Wanted to be Different. The Monkeys also gave mommy and daddy ornaments that they made with their sweet little handprints on them-so precious! It was a fun and very busy day at preschool!

Snips And Snails And Puppy Dog Tails..That's What Little Boys Are Made Of

We were babysitting cousins Avery and Henry and had to take some pictures of all our precious boys! Henry is Hopper's bestest friend! He wouldn't leave Hopper's side the whole night. Hopper and his blankie, and Big Hen was content as can be! Avery, Uncle Jerm and I finished off the night with some root beer floats (or "float beers" as Avery calls them) and watched some Einstein movies before bed....the elephant AND sheep ones of course!

All of our boys are growing up so fast; it's good to catch little moments like these. We love them so much!

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, Oh ....my gosh is that a zebra and camel!

Okay, now before I go any further I want you to notice the pictures of the zebra and camel. Yes, I did say zebra and camel...the camel's name is "Lover Boy"! Now, these cute critters were at a local tree lot here in Eagle, Idaho. Yes, that's correct, at the little tree lot where we got our beautiful Christmas tree! Only in Idaho can you find such a combination. And what a day to place into our many Christmas memories we hope to have together!

The boys are fascinated with the tree this year. They have broken pretty much every ornament on the tree, eaten some fake berries off the garland and continually pull on the many strings of lights! "No No!" seems to be heard quite a bit around here lately. The tree is, however, beautiful and makes us excited for the Christmas season and smells so good! Brenen and Dillon are deciding whether to be naughty or nice......but I bet Santa brings them presents anyway because they are so darn cute! Daddy and Kashmir will get a lump of coal!

Happy Holidays!

Give Thanks

It is that time of year again to give thanks for all we have! We are truly blessed to have such wonderul family and good friends in our lives! We hope you all had a good Thanksgiving holiday!